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LATEST · MSR 2027

GitSkills accepted for the MSR 2027 Mining Challenge.

Our dataset brings together agent skill files from 282,200 public GitHub repositories, opening new opportunities to study how skills are authored, shared and reused.

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2025–2026
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July 2026

People’s Choice Award for collaborative AI agents

Giuseppe Destefanis received the People’s Choice Award at the UCL Computer Science Innovation Challenge Showcase, hosted by the Centre for Sustainability & RealTech Innovation (CSRI). His project explores how a shared, structured knowledge base can help teams of AI agents retain context, exchange knowledge and coordinate work across projects and workflows.

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April 2026

Distinguished Reviewer Award at MSR 2026

Giuseppe Destefanis received the Distinguished Reviewer Award at the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2026), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in April 2026.

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April 2026

Distinguished Reviewer Award at ICPC 2026

Giuseppe Destefanis received the Distinguished Reviewer Award at the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2026), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in April 2026.

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11 April 2025

AI and Finance — Collaborative Frontiers

Silvia Bartolucci was a speaker at the interdisciplinary AI and Finance workshop at the London School of Economics, bringing together academics and practitioners working on AI in financial systems.

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March 2025

Cozzarelli Prize for research on complex networks

Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli, Francesco Caravelli and Pierpaolo Vivo received the Cozzarelli Prize in Engineering and Applied Sciences for “Distribution of centrality measures on undirected random networks via the cavity method”.

Prize announcement
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March 2025

Distinguished Reviewer Award at CHASE 2025

Giuseppe Destefanis was selected for a Distinguished Reviewer Award at CHASE 2025, recognising his contribution to reviewing research on cooperative and human aspects of software engineering.

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